DEFENCE OF FREETRADE
LONDON, June 9. Speaking at a Freetrade meeting in London, Sir Swire Smith said that Germany imported yarn on an almost Freetrade basis, and gave more employment to their Yorkshire mills than the rest of the world put together. In many respects Great Britain was gaining more by the growth of German trade than Germany herself was. The British wool industry had never given fuller home employment, nor paid higher wages, nor enjoyed higher credit than at present.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2935, 15 June 1910, Page 25
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81DEFENCE OF FREETRADE Otago Witness, Issue 2935, 15 June 1910, Page 25
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